Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-30
~HYPOCRITICAL CANT.

Senator Hoar's recent speech in Boston
as quoted by the Inter Mountain is one Of
the most pronounced specimens Of hypo'
critical can't that has ever come under the
observation of The MINER. Mr.. Hoar is
quoted as saying:
ION the other hand the Republican party
has a very clear, fixed, definite opinion and
purpose which they are readyto announce.
They agree that a great surplus in the
Treasury is an evil. 1t takes from the
people by taxation money which should
not be taken from them, and it keeps from
circulating money which the people should
be using. We propose to do away with
this surplus. First, by diminishing the
taxation which puts it into the Treasury;
and second by expanding Of necessary pub
lie objects the money which is already there.
We propose to take off the duty IN every
imported article which enters into an
American manufacture as q material or as
a necessary article of consumption for the
American people which cannot proftably
be produced here, ETC."
What mockery! what hypocracy! what
a falsifying of the record of the Republican
party! 'They agree says Hoar that a
great surplus in the Treasury is an evil. It
takes from the people by taxation money
which should not be taken from them"
Yet last winter when the Democrats in
Congress desired tariff legislation to prevent
the accumulation of this surpl. g in the
treasury; when they argued that the money
would subserve a better purpose
in the hands of the people, than laying idle
in the Treasury vaults, when they be-
and begged that relief be afforded
the taxpayers of the country, what did the
members do? How did Sena-
tor Hoar's partisans in the lower house of
Congress receive this Democratic PROPOSE
We answer, by uniting with the few
and voting it down. Twice
during the last session did the Republicans
refuse to open up legislation looking to the
of the tariff and the consequent |
of the inflowing Of the hard
earnings OF the laboring men of the coun-
Try. One hundred and forty-nine Demo-
in the House urged tariff legislation
While the Republicans and their Randallite
lilies mustered 1874 votes against it.
And now comes this old Massachu-
fraud with his hypocritical
ant about what the Republican
intends to do for the overta1ed
of the country, and just such inno-
gullible Republican papers as tho
inter- Mnuntain heralds it as Gospel truth.
The people at large will take no stock in
UGH Republican professions. The history
the Forty-ninth Congress gives the d.
ect lie to Hoar's assertions, and the rec
rds OF that body clinches it.
A reduction of the tariff is about the
list thing the Republican party wants.
hey have fought such reduction for years,
nd will continue to fight it. They boast
hey ''laid out horizontal Morrison for
rging tariff reduction, and they have re-
arded Sam Randall for opposing it by
~erymandering his Congressional district
, that he cannot fail to be
to the House. So much
" Republican professions. They will be
gain put to the test during the Fiftieth
ongress. The Democrats of that body are
OF such consummate idiots as to fail to Z
ut the Republicans upon the record con-
tariff legislation. If national taxa
on be not reduced; if the Treasury sur
lis be not cut down by a reduction of
riff rates the fault will rest with the Re- ,
lblican party. In the meantime the
oars of the country will continue to in
llge in just such hypocritical can't as was .
lard in Boston the other day. =